Yi Wei

TL;DR: A diverse range of optically active propargyl cyanides were produced with high reaction efficiency and enantioselectivities and mechanistic investigations including experiments and density functional theory calculations were performed to illustrate the reaction pathway and stereochemical results.

TL;DR: A series of biologically and synthetically important 3-vinyl indolines are rapidly assembled with a high reaction efficiency and stereoselectivity through the enantioselective trapping of Pd-stabilized zwitterionic intermediates by the sulphur ylides.

TL;DR: A new hybrid P,S ligand was exploited by combining a chiral β-amino sulfide and a simple diphenyl phosphite, creating a straightforward route to highly functionalized tetrahydroquinolines and mechanistic insights into this transformation and the possible stereocontrol are discussed.

TL;DR: Visible light-driven organic photochemical reactions have attracted substantial attention from the synthetic community as discussed by the authors, and a summary of representative work in this field in terms of different photoexcitation modes can be found in this paper.